Collaboration is the name of the game. ‘The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don’t sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life…Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors…the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don’t realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn’t been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry…If you don’t think the system is out of control, then please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death…If such a hugely lethal epidemic had been caused by a new bacterium or a virus, or even one hundredth of it, we would have done everything we could to get it under control.’​ [From the Introduction]. Be prepared to be shocked reading about confessions from an insider, the hall of shame for ‘big pharma’, conflicts of interest at medical journals, the corruptive influence of easy money, forceful and insistent drug advertising, too many warnings and too many drugs, the drug industry’s paradise (psychiatry) and a big etcetera.

Deadly medicines and organised crime : how big pharma has corrupted healthcare. Peter C. Gøtzsche. London: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2013.